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10/7/13,
"Martinez: Balfour is no Mariano Rivera," MyFoxDetroit.com, WJBK
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| Victor Martinez |
"
Detroit struggled on the mound, at the plate and in the
field during a 6-3 loss Monday that left the Tigers trailing 2-1 in the
best-of-five AL division series.
But the game would not be
complete without a
bench-clearing, heated exchange between Victor
Martinez and A's closer Grant Balfour in the ninth inning.
Balfour
said something that apparently did not sit right with up-to-bat
Martinez, and the tempers started flaring. The two closed in on each
other, staring each other down, and teammates ran off the bench and out
of the bullpen to back up their guys.
Here's what Martinez has
to say about what happened: "I just fouled a pitch off. I was looking at
[Balfour] and he told me, 'What the *** am I looking?' And I was like
... [scoffs] ... Not even the greatest closer, that's Mariano, tell you
stuff like that. And I'm not a rookie too, that he's going to come and
intimidate me with little *** like that."...
# posted by susan @ 7:50 PM
